Psalms 78:7
Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- quia comederunt Jacob, et locum ejus desolaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι κατέφαγον τὸν Ἰακώβ, καὶ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἠρήμωσαν.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 79:7
- כִּ֭י אָכַ֣ל אֶֽת יַעֲקֹ֑ב וְֽאֶת נָוֵ֥הוּ הֵשַֽׁמּוּ
Haydock's commentary
They have devoured. So Pagnin ventured to translate the Hebrew. But Montanus substitutes the singular, though it be evidently incorrect, (Haydock) and contrary to all the ancient versions and the parallel passage, (Jeremias x. 25.) as well as to Manuscript 3, Lambeth 435, &c., (Kennicott) v being lost at the end of acol. (Houbigant)
Place. Hebrew also, "beauty," the ark or temple. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXIX
10. Lastly, there followeth, “For they have eaten up Jacob, and his place they have made desolate” ( ver. 7 ).…How we should view “the place” of Jacob, must be understood. For rather the place of Jacob may be supposed to be that city, wherein was also the Temple, whither-unto the whole of that nation for the purpose of sacrifice and worship, and to celebrate the Passover, the Lord had commanded to assemble. For if the assemblies of Christians, letted and suppressed by persecutors, has been what the Prophet would have to be understood, it would seem that he should have said, places made desolate, not place. …